5 Rands Way, Ipswich IP3 9HF

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 84 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £13,000 · £13,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£2516.1 yrs+1.7 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£4250+ yrs+2.8 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£6850+ yrs+4.6 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£5350+ yrs+3.6 pts · reaches B
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond B)£5,000 – £8,000£6350+ yrs+4.3 pts

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£1,081
per year at grade C
£830
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £188 a year — a 1.4% annual return on £13,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £767 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

16 September 2016£160,000

Estimated today: £201,113 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Rands Way: 42 sales since 1995 · £193,400 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Murrayfield Primary - A Paradigm AcademyPrimary0.3 mi
Rose Hill PrimaryPrimary0.7 mi
Piper's Vale Primary - A Paradigm AcademyPrimary0.7 mi
Ipswich AcademySecondary0.6 miProgress 8 -0.54 · well below average (2023/24)
Copleston High SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.34 · above average (2023/24)
St Alban's Catholic High SchoolSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 +0.13 · average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

10.8
crimes a month
119
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 45% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01029994, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Rands Way

How this home sits against its street.

50
graded homes
67.1
average score
C
most common grade
+1.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.